22 best-selling mystery books like Beggar's Choice by Patricia Wentworth

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Beggar's Choice

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Car Fairfax had hit rock bottom. First, he was rejected for a job because his shoes were worn out. …

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1. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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2. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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3. Simon The Coldheart

By: Georgette Heyer

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alik… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

4. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4) by Jill Paton Walsh

5. The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

By: Edmund Crispin

3.51

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Theatre companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company c… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada"

-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

"bruscas sacudidas del tren abofetean a los viajeros hasta dejarlos sumidos en un estado de abyecta sumisión"

-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

7. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their ch… read more

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8. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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9. Dead Men Don't Ski

By: Patricia Moyes

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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10. The Yellow Room

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a charred corpse is discovered in the linen closet of her family's Maine retreat, a woman must… read more

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11. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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12. Thrones, Dominations (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The wife of a wealthy man is found dead, and it is up to Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, Harriet, t… read more

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13. Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.90

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Ingenious’ Times Literary SupplementThe second of ten ‘Roger Sheringham’ detective novelsThis 2023… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Stargazer (Leaphorn & Chee, #24) by Anne Hillerman

14. Stargazer (Leaphorn & Chee, #24)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Ti… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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15. The Library Murders (Flora Steele, #8)

By: Merryn Allingham

4.37

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Bookshop owner and amateur detective Flora Steele and her fiancé, crime writer Jack Carrington, dis… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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16. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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17. The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #6)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.43

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegi… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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18. The Red Scar: A Dr Hailey Detective Novel

By: Anthony Wynne

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Brilliant characterisation, coupled with a thrilling human story make this latest literary effort … read more

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19. Beggar's Choice

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Car Fairfax had hit rock bottom. First, he was rejected for a job because his shoes were worn out. … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's Beggar's Choice book and Patricia Wentworth's Beggar's Choice

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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20. A Murder in Long Island (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #1)

By: Colette Clark

4.32

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A death in a locked room and a house full of suspects… New York, 1925 Penelope “Pen” Banks has … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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21. Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

By: Kerry Greenwood

3.84

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher (she of… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't."

-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

"In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd s…"

-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

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22. Murder at Melrose Court (Heathcliff Lennox, #1)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.07

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction. It's 1920 a… read more

Similar categories in Karen Baugh Menuhin's Murder at Melrose Court (Heathcliff Lennox, #1) book and Patricia Wentworth's Beggar's Choice

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1) by M.J. Trow

23. Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1)

By: M.J. Trow

4.06

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter Maxwell is perfectly content with his routine; by day, inspire students and, if lucky, annoy … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Pearls, Poison & Park Avenue (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #3) by Colette Clark

24. Pearls, Poison & Park Avenue (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #3)

By: Colette Clark

4.42

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder at a young ladies’ luncheon…and no shortage of suspects. 1925 New York Penelope “Pen… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
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25. The Missing White Lady (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #2)

By: Colette Clark

4.38

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Could a missing white cat be the key to solving this case? New York, 1925 “My husband should be… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
Cover of The Murder of Eve: A Golden Age Mystery by Moray Dalton

26. The Murder of Eve: A Golden Age Mystery

By: Moray Dalton

4.19

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

"Life hasn't always been easy here, but nobody has tried to murder me before." Roger Fordyce, a lit… read more

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  • mystery
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27. The Strange Case of Harriet Hall

By: Moray Dalton

4.00

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

We’ve managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won’t last. We can’t escape publicity, and… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in the Gardens (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #4) by Colette Clark

28. Murder in the Gardens (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries, #4)

By: Colette Clark

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

You are cordially invited to the grand opening of the Japanese Tea Gardens on the rooftop of the Gr… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
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29. The Draycott Murder Mystery

By: Molly Thynne

3.99

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

There was something about those hands, with their strangely crisped fingers, as though they had bee… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"She's never been an atom of good to that child since the day she she was born and, in her present mood, she'd cast a blight over a Bacchanalian orgy!"

-Molly Thynne, The Draycott Murder Mystery

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30. Fly Country: A Golden Age Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A neatly constructed plot which is distinctly out of the ordinary’ The Times‘An excellent mystery … read more

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31. Death Reports to a Health Resort (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #9)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.53

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Death Reports to a Health Resortor The case of the case of withdrawalWhen his uncle is accused of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction

19 Best fiction books like Beggar's Choice by Patricia Wentworth

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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

4.36

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Caroline Graham

3.97

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Simon The Coldheart

Georgette Heyer

5.00

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A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

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Nicola Upson

3.52

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John Dickson Carr

3.91

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Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

Margery Allingham

3.96

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Christianna Brand

3.55

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